Ramanujan's formula, derived by the mathematician in 1914 when quantum theory hadn't been formulated fully, provides a faster ...

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Japanese physicists have revived Kelvin’s old idea of cosmic knots, showing how these tangled fields might explain why matter ...

Research has linked the ability to visualize to a bewildering variety of human traits—how we experience trauma, hold grudges, ...

Is peak power everything? As evidenced by the Nürburgring lap times for the 1,064-horsepower Chevy Corvette ZR1 and ...

AI chatbots can write essays, explain physics, and even simulate expert reasoning, but when it comes to precise, multi-step calculations, confidence does not always equal correctness. AI chatbots can ...

For the first time, scientists have detected two black hole mergers with spins so unusual they may reveal a new generation of ...

We argue about sports the way medieval scholastics argued about angels dancing on pinheads — with absolute conviction about something that seemingly doesn't matter.

Language, however, belongs to a different realm. It is not only a system of rules but also a living, breathing expression of ...

Astrophysicists at the University of Chicago have developed physics-based models suggesting that dark energy could be changing over time. Dark energy, the mysterious force causing the universe to ...

Two Caltech historians associated with the Einstein Papers Project have gathered together what they consider to be the most important of Einstein's ...

Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and School of Advanced Computing have developed artificial neurons that ...